The democrats have managed to stoke the fires of my political resolve, as has President Trump.
Watching Donald Trump’s speech from Mar-a-Lago, after returning from the legal circus in morally and legally bankrupt New York City, I need to reaffirm a few things:
President Trump is a unicorn, politically speaking. There is NO leading politician like him…, even remotely like him.
He is only interested in the best interests of our country and its people. This is quite a rare attribute.
President Trump speaks plainly, and he speaks the truth. What a novel idea for a politician.
President Trump is a remarkable person. He has taken the slings and arrows of a relentless opposition, and he is a tireless fighter for himself, his family, and the rest of us, and he deserves our appreciation and support.
Thank you, Mr. President, for refusing to give up on our country and the American ideal.
You are a hero to millions of Americans, and deservedly so.
I honestly don’t know how you do it, but I am eternally grateful you’re willing to make the effort on behalf of your country.
The democrats have “called down the thunder,” and now Trump and the MAGA patriots are coming, “and hell is coming with us.”
If our country is to be saved, Donald Trump would be the one who could do it.
Again, you have my unconditional support, Mr. President.
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I would say there is no doubt that some of our fellow Americans are losing it, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.
In June of 2020, Author Robin Wright asked, for “The New Yorker,” no less, “Is America Becoming a Banana Republic?”
I don’t think she knew at the time how prophetic that question would be.
“In the early nineteen-hundreds, the American writer O. Henry coined the term “banana republic” in a series of short stories…”
“The term, which originally referred to a politically unstable country run by a dictator and his cronies…, took on a life of its own.”
“Over the past century, “banana republic” has evolved to mean any country (with or without bananas) that has a ruthless, corrupt, or just plain ‘loopy’ leader who relies on the military [in our case the state police, the DOJ and the FBI, with the cooperation of some kangaroo courts thrown in there] and destroys state institutions…”
“During the heated Presidential campaign of 2016, the term made its way into mainstream American politics, often glibly. President Trump invoked it in October, 2016. ‘This election will determine whether we remain a free country in the truest sense of the word or we become a corrupt banana republic controlled by large donors and foreign governments,’ he told a cheering crowd in Florida.”
Truer words were never spoken.
“The House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (at the time), the third most powerful politician in the land, described the experience of her daughter, a filmmaker and journalist, when men in fatigues used chemical agents and body armor to force her fellow peaceful protesters aside so Trump could walk to St. John’s Church, on Monday night, for a fleeting photo op where he waved the Bible. On Wednesday, Pelosi bluntly asked, on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe,’ ‘What is this, a banana republic?’”
Ha! Just wait Nancy! You will show us all what kind of banana republic we have, when you surround the capitol with fencing and armed reservists to supposedly protect yourselves from your own concocted “insurrection!”
“Later that day, James Mattis, the former Defense Secretary, issued a scathing rebuke of President Trump, his former boss.”
Boy, what a disappointment Mattis turned out to be. A real sell-out. And that’s coming from a marine myself.
“Mattis described being ‘angry and appalled’ at the use of the U.S. military against the American people.”
Again, hang onto your hat General Mattis, because you ain’t seen nothing yet!
‘“When I joined the military, some fifty years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens, much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside,” he said, in a statement to The Atlantic.”
Like I said, you ain’t seen nothing yet, General! Talk about a “bizarre photo op!” The democrat contrived January 6th “insurrection” was one long running “bizarre photo op!
“Pictures of National Guard troops arrayed in tight rows on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, a site that symbolizes reconciliation and healing after our Civil War, clad in camouflage, flak jackets, and body armor, added to the sense that America is in the midst of a defining national crisis. Mattis raged at the President personally, accusing him of deliberately trying to divide the country.”
Ha! That’s a real hoot!
‘“We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square,’ he said. He went one big step further, demanding that ‘those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution’ must be held accountable.”
Yes. We’re all waiting for Pelosi and the democrats to be held responsible for the grand January 6th charade.
“Scholars and current and former policymakers say that Trump’s historical legacy increasingly appears to be the undoing of American democracy. ‘We are far too complacent about the durability of our system,’ Robert Kagan, a historian at the Brookings Institution and the author of ‘The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World,’ told me (Seems like kind of a racist title, if you ask me.). ‘So much of what makes our system work is the general fidelity to a democratic ethos on the part of everybody involved.’”
Bingo!
We are all currently witnessing the democrats making their best efforts to “undo American democracy.”
“Trump has proved that ‘our system has within it the capacity to be subverted,’ Kagan said. The brilliance of America’s Founders was designing a constitution with checks and balances to ensure that the instruments of power served the people and the Constitution, and limited the Presidency. ‘The founders hoped that Congress would be jealous of its prerogatives and the independent judiciary would be jealous of its role, and that each actor would have a certain devotion to the republican spirit, little “R,” and defend it against potential threats from a President more concerned for his own interests than the rights of the general population,’ Kagan said. ‘The amazing thing is that, throughout our history, that really has sort of been the case.’ No longer, he added. At the direction of President Trump, the core institutions that once insured the daily functions of the state and the peaceful transition of leadership have been seriously eroded.”
Wow.
Reading all of this two years later, it’s uncanny how all of these democrat tools and elitists are ending up describing themselves and their anti-American democrat friends!
“At the Department of Justice [inJustice], Attorney General William Barr overrode his own prosecutors in the sentencing of Roger Stone, a Trump ally. He urged that charges against Michael Flynn, Trump’s first short-lived national security adviser, be dropped, even though Flynn twice pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. In the case of Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, the President launched a Twitter tirade against Judge Amy Berman Jackson, including the false charge, ‘Is this the Judge that put Paul Manafort in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, something that not even mobster Al Capone had to endure?’ Corrections officials, not judges, determine how and where prisoners are held. ‘If they can do that to protect the President’s friends, they can also be used against the President’s enemies,’ Kagan said.”
Oh, how we see that now!
You see, you can’t lie to the FBI, unless you’re a democrat. There are definitely two completely separate sets of rules, depending on where your politics lie.
‘“The clock is ticking on the future of America’s democracy,’ David Blight, a civil-war historian at Yale, told me. ‘This unrest, it’s more than unrest, it’s a revolt, is truly astonishing.’ In nine days, protesters have taken to the streets in three hundred and eighty cities over the death of George Floyd. ‘We have to find some way for electoral politics, ending just five months from now, to harness this, or where does it go? What’s left?’ He compared the deep political dysfunction in Washington in 2020 to the eighteen-fifties, when U.S. institutions were torn apart and the country collapsed in disunion. ‘There was no center left by 1860,’ he said. To answer Pelosi’s question, Blight said, ‘We’re not quite there yet. But we may be on the verge of becoming a banana republic. It was correct of her to ask the question.’”
Wow, was it ever. In fact, she was foreshadowing things to come, thanks to her and her democrat co-conspirators.
We have gone from finding the person who committed a crime, to finding a crime based on the person, or political target.
Now, that’s a real indicator of a “banana republic.”
It looks like we’ll have front row seats to the democrats’ legal circus, regarding former President Trump, for quite a while here, all while the “Biden crime family” is given a pass after pass from the Department of inJustice, and its resident treasonist in charge, Merrick Garland.
We’ve got banana republics, monkey business, and kangaroo courts! The democrats have created a real zoo out here!
Stay tuned.
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I keep hearing democrats crying about “election deniers,” and how the 2020 election results have been “certified,” yada, yada, yada.
“Certified” by who?
“Certified” by the same corrupt partisan officials who conducted the election in their respective cities and states, and then rubber stamped by other partisan politicians and partisan judges?
According to Lisa Marshall, for the CU (Colorado University) Boulder Today, news publication, “In the days following the 2020 presidential election, as states re-counted and certified votes and President Joe Biden’s win became more objectively certain, Republicans, paradoxically, became less confident in the legitimacy of the vote, according to new CU Boulder research published today in the journal PLOS ONE.”
Note: PLOS ONE is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science since 2006. The journal covers primary research from any discipline within science and medicine.
“The study also found that, regardless of political party, the more an individual consumed and trusted Fox News, the less faith he or she had in the electoral process.”
Could that be because the mainstream media stuck their heads in the sand and basically failed to report about any election abnormalities at all, while FOX at least addressed some of the issues and concerns?
Could that be why?
‘“We have never seen this before in the weeks following Election Day: The more evidence accumulated that Biden won, the less confident Republicans became that the election was legitimate,’ said senior author Leaf Van Boven, a professor of psychology and neuroscience who studies judgment and decision making in politics. ‘In a healthy democracy, you would see that moving in the opposite direction, Democrats and Republicans would become more confident in the election’s legitimacy.’”
Yes, that would be nice, but the more we learned about the 2020 election, or better said “installation,” the less confidence we had it its legitimacy.
And, the reason “we have never seen this before in the weeks following Election,” is because we have never seen a presidential election stolen like this before!
“The study comes as some conservative thought leaders have begun to distance themselves from Fox News for giving voice to what they call ‘conspiracy theories,’ and two voting technology companies are suing the network for perpetuating claims the election was rigged.”
Haven’t we arrived at the point now where “conspiracy theories” really aren’t theories anymore?
And anyone can sue anybody for anything. The act of being sued should not be attributable to the questioning of integrity. “The study” makes biased assumptions, connections, and conclusions that are not really valid.
And who gave the order to stop counting votes in the swing states on the night of November 3/4, 2020 by the way?
Just sayin’.
“The new research relies on a psychological explanation, known as ‘cognitive dissonance theory,’ to explain the bizarre turn American politics has taken in the past year.”
Oh, really?
“Cognitive dissonance is when one’s personal attitudes and identities are inconsistent with their beliefs. To ease that discomfort, people rationalize the facts to restore consistency and turn to social networks to reaffirm that rationalization.”
I guess I would say we turned to social networks to validate our lying eyes with the lying eyes of others…, but, that’s just me.
“After the 2020 election, the explanation for many was that the election must have been rigged [which it was], and the reaffirming social network was Fox News, Van Boven said, ‘If you expect your candidate to win and then your candidate loses, you are shoved into a state of cognitive dissonance. What you thought was supposed to happen doesn’t happen and that feels uncomfortable, so you make sense of it by rationalizing the outcome.’”
Or, when “what you thought was supposed to happen doesn’t happen, and that feels uncomfortable,” you blame the Russians!
Or, you recognize the actual chain of events, and refuse to be an election denier denier.
I don’t remember this being raised when Hillary lost, regarding democrats. I do remember Russian collusion being blamed, however. What would the resident eggheads call that?
Collusion delusion?
“For the study, the researchers took advantage of an unusual ‘natural experiment,’ a hotly contested election with an unprecedented number of mail-in and absentee ballots, which meant the outcome would not be known for days.”
You mean an election with an unprecedented number of UNVERIFIABLE and illegal mail-in and absentee ballots, that were conveniently discovered and counted in the middle of the night?
Those ballots?
“They surveyed a diverse sample of 1,200 people and asked them how much faith they had that the votes were counted correctly. Half responded between Nov. 4 and 8, just after Election Day when many states’ vote counts had not been confirmed. Half took it between Nov. 9 and 15, after all states had confirmed counts, most media outlets had declared Biden the winner and Biden had delivered his acceptance speech.”
“Participants also reported how much they trusted and consumed 15 media outlets, including Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.”
“As days passed, Republicans grew less confident that the votes were counted fairly, while Democrats grew more confident. Both findings are problematic, said Van Boven, ‘In healthy democracies, citizens are confident that votes were counted as intended regardless of who won.’”
That’s because “as days passed” we learned more about the democrats’ efforts to manipulate the vote, and the legal system’s choice to not address the problems with the vote at all.
We definitely cannot be considered a “healthy democracy” at this point.
“The researchers were surprised to find that Republicans trusted and consumed only one of the 15 media outlets, Fox News, more than Democrats or Independents did. Democrats, in contrast, trusted and consumed all of the media outlets, except Fox News, more than Republicans or Independents.”
‘“If an individual trusted and consumed any of the other media outlets we measured, aside from Fox News, they trusted the election outcome more,’ said Van Boven.”
And that is because the “other media outlets” pumped out their dutiful propaganda about how this was the most secure election in history, which it obviously wasn’t.
“What made 2020 different? Studies have shown that voters whose candidate loses tend to temporarily lose faith that votes were counted correctly, but if the democracy is healthy losers ultimately consent. 2020 was different. Voters personally identified more closely with their political parties than in past elections, said author Dani Grant, a doctoral student in social psychology. ‘There is a lot more cognitive dissonance if you are not just dealing with disagreement about abstract policies, but you feel like your actual identity is under threat,’ said Grant.”
And it is.
Without fair elections, democracies aren’t democracies.
Just a reminder that the Texas lawsuit questioning the validity of the 2020 election results was joined by more than a dozen state attorney generals, as well as more than 100 members of the U.S. House. This was a little more than a case of personal cognitive dissonance.
“Trump did not promptly concede, as George H.W. Bush, Al Gore, John McCain and Hillary Clinton did. And the media landscape had changed.”
And the way we accumulated and counted the votes had changed as well.
And why would President Trump “promptly concede” when the election was obviously being stolen from him?
“We now exist in a media landscape that is sharply polarized, and we need to take some initiative to seek more diversity. Otherwise, we may just be reaffirming our preexisting beliefs and notions to make us feel better.”
A diversity of truths?
How does that work?
Perhaps you should direct your concerns towards how our elections are conducted, rather than how the media portrays how our elections ae conducted.
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It’s absolutely true that “Sometimes Corruption and Evil Comes Disguised as Inept or Stupid,” and we are witnesses to it every single day.
Some of the most malintentioned actions and corrupt policies are perpetrated on us by those who we casually dismiss as unintelligent, ignorant, clueless, and foolish, when in fact these actions and polices are quite calculated and premeditated…, but not by them.
These malintentioned actions and corrupt policies may be enacted by the unintelligent, ignorant, clueless, and foolish, but they are formulated and initiated by people that are very intelligent, although anti-American, anti-freedom, and basically evil in nature.
Perfect examples of this would be illegitimate Joe, cackling Kamala, and John “Uncle Festerman” Fetterman.
These three would be examples of the unintelligent, ignorant, clueless, and foolish, being controlled by others.
They (the corrupt, anti-American, anti-freedom, and basically evil in nature, puppeteers) don’t particularly care who the president is, who the vice-president is, or who the deciding vote in the senate is, as long as they control the political outcomes by virtue of controlling their positions.
Let’s face it, Joe Biden could care less about racism, the climate, immigrants, our border, the homeless problem, crime, inflation, or anything else really. He is just happy to be enjoying the luxuries and the privilege provided him by being president, while dutifully reading what is supplied to him on a teleprompter or his “cheat sheet” note cards.
And, Kamala Harris and John Fetterman are just clueless warm bodies…, and I wouldn’t even classify Biden as a warm body at this point.
Biden’s administration is littered with inept puppets throughout his cabinet and throughout the leadership of numerous government agencies.
The Godless democrat “swamp” of corrupt and anti-American bureaucracy is much deeper and more expansive than anyone could ever have imagined.
Our country is in serious trouble, my friends, and the United States of America, as we have come to know it, may not be around that much longer.
What the end game is for all of these people who run interference for all of this anti-Americanism, is beyond me. And by the time they realize they messed up, it will be too late.
If I was a younger man, I think I’d consider learning how to speak Chinese.
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The democrats don’t deal in truths. They deal in a series of power hungry charades.
There is a God.
And if God exists, so does Satan.
We see evidence of God and Satan around us every day.
An abortion takes the life of an innocent human being.
Those who promote abortions are puppets of the Devil.
Women who have had a change of heart about abortion deserve our love and prayers, and the knowledge that God and their unborn child has already forgiven them and loves them.
We are all human. We all have sinned. We all have fallen short of the glory of God.
“If you’re going through hell, just keep moving. You might get out before the Devil even knows you’re there.”
It is true that money (which equates to power) is the root of all evil.
Sex is not far behind money. Sexual deviancy (Pedophilia in particular) needs to be crushed and eradicated like the cultural cancer it is.
Crude oil IS NOT a product of long dead dinosaurs and animals. It is a natural product of the Earth, and we will not run out of it.
Elite Climate alarmists don’t really think they can change our climate, while their foolish followers believe they can.
Today’s democrats would have supported the British in The Revolutionary War.
Today’s democrats have more in common with Hitler and the Nazis than the allied countries that opposed him at the time.
John F. Kennedy’s assassination was orchestrated by elements within our own government, and then covered up by elements within our own government. Specifically the CIA, LBJ, and other cooperative establishment politicians and bureaucrats. And you can probably say that for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as well.
Donald Trump winning the 2016 presidential election over Hillary Clinton caught the democrats completely off guard. They would not allow this scenario to happen again, by any means.
Joe Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 presidential election.
The COVID-19 virus was developed in a Chinese lab, with the help of American funding, to be released into the world, by global fascist forces, when needed to mitigate a threat to their power and control, namely President Trump.
Dogs are more loyal and loving than most people.
The United States has seen its last free and fair national election, relatively speaking, back in 2016.
Any government entity distinguished by three letters, four in some cases, (eg: DOJ, FBI, CIA, IRS) are corrupt and politically weaponized beyond your wildest imagination.
Jeffrey Epstein DID NOT commit suicide, nor did Vince Foster. I’m sorry if some of you may need to look Vince Foster up.
Our government is currently run by unelected bureaucrats (The Swamp), not our elected representatives.
Any topic the corrupt DOJ or FBI does not want to talk about is described as “an ongoing investigation.”
It is unethical and immoral for our government to borrow money in order to give it away, especially to foreign countries, leaving the American taxpayers with the burden of paying this money back.
People coming into our country illegally should not get preferential treatment over our military veterans and current citizens.
Our founding fathers meant the “free press” to watchdogs over our politicians and our government, not propagandist lapdogs.
Think about how ignorant and ill-informed the average American is, then understand that half of all Americans are more ignorant and ill-informed than that.
We should all support our police, but we all have also seen how quickly the police can flip from crime fighters and protectors to political mandate enforcers and adversaries of our Constitutional freedoms.
Humans, generally, don’t handle freedom well. That’s why, sadly, America was doomed from the start.
We should all learn how to speak Chinese.
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Traitorous in the sense that we were implored to support republicans in the 2022 elections to prevent exactly what they ended up voting for.
I guess the results of the 2022 midterms reflected the support the republican senate candidates deserved.
At least with the democrats, we know where they stand.
The “Gang of 18” republican senators can all be rightfully described as “snakes in the grass” sell-outs!
All republican politicians will end up paying the price for The Gang of 18. Mark my words. The republicans’ contribution revenue stream has now officially dried up.
According to Anna Skinner, reporting for Newsweek, “The Senate voted to pass a $1.66 trillion omnibus spending bill Thursday afternoon with only a day remaining before a deadline that could partially shut down the government.”
The shutting down of our government, even a partial shutdown, would be the best thing that could happen for our country.
“Eighteen Republicans joined all 48 Democrats and two independents [“Independents in name only!] in passing the bill, which must still pass through the House before it arrives on President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law. The final vote was 68-29.”
“If approved [by The House of Representatives], [and it was] the bill will extend government funding through September 30, 2023. It had been delayed for weeks as lawmakers argued over its proposals, which included funding around immigration, emergency disaster assistance and military aid to Ukraine.”
Now, even after this bill’s passage, they are still writing-in portions of the bill. It’s the democrats’ version of a late night voting dump.
“Before the Senate voted, former President Donald Trump slammed members of the Republican party for their potential help in passing the bill in a video message posted to Truth Social. Trump specifically targeted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell [and rightfully so], who voted in favor of the bill.”
“Trump had urged all members of his party to vote against the bill and called the bill a ‘disaster’ for the Republican Party since Republican senators could have stopped it. Trump also criticized Democrats for pushing the bill through Congress before Republicans take control of the House in the New Year.”
“However, McConnell thought the bill was a win for Republicans because it increased the nation’s defense budget by nearly 10 percent, according to an article by The Hill. Nondefense and nonveteran spending received a more than 5 percent bump, totaling $772 billion.”
‘“The world’s greatest military will get the funding increase that it needs, outpacing inflation. Meanwhile, nondefense, nonveterans spending will come in below the rate of inflation, for a real-dollar cut,’ McConnell said on the Senate floor, according to The Hill.”
“If it is signed into law [and it will be], the bill will direct $19.8 billion toward Ukraine and NATO military aid and an additional $12.9 billion to help the Ukrainian economy as it battles through the Russia-Ukraine war, The Hill added.”
“The House is expected to vote on the bill Thursday night or Friday morning. Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman tweeted that since the Senate added several items to the bill, it could ‘take a while to process and get to the House.’”
They did vote on the bill, and they passed it, and it didn’t take very long at all. It’s called “take the money and run.”
Here is a full list of Republican senators [traitors] who voted in favor of the bill (in alphabetical order):
Roy Blunt (Missouri)
John Boozman (Arkansas)
Shelley Capito (West Virginia)
Susan Collins (Maine)
John Cornyn (Texas)
Tom Cotton (Arkansas)
Lindsey Graham (South Carolina)
Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma)
Mitch McConnell (Kentucky)
Jerry Moran (Kansas)
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Rob Portman (Ohio)
Mitt Romney (Utah)
Mike Rounds (South Dakota)
Richard Shelby (Alabama)
John Thune (South Dakota)
Roger Wicker (Mississippi)
Todd Young (Indiana)
This “Gang of 18” should go down in infamy, regarding their unnecessary capitulation to the democrats, and their disregard of their constituents and conservative Americans everywhere.
From the mouth of liberal propaganda news headquarters itself, CNN, we hear some of the lowlights of the omnibus bill.
Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco report for CNN, “What’s in the massive government funding bill? Some [most, if not all] Congress members may not even know.”
And that’s another thing. Who actually wrote-up this 4,000 plus page behemoth of a bill?
And shouldn’t the actual author(s) be published on the bill?
Just sayin’.
“The House passed a $1.7 trillion yearlong federal government spending bill on Friday, paving the way for it to be signed into law by President Joe Biden.”
“The legislation includes $772.5 billion for nondefense discretionary programs and $858 billion in defense funding, according to a bill summary from Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations. That would represent an increase in spending in both areas for fiscal year 2023.”
A few hundred billion dollars here, and a few hundred billion dollars there, and pretty soon we’re talking about some real money!
“The sweeping package includes roughly $45 billion in emergency assistance to Ukraine and NATO allies, and an overhaul of the electoral vote-counting law…”
“It also would provide a boost in spending for disaster aid [But not for Florida hurricane relief, however. Hmmm, I wonder why?]…, and additional funds for the US Capitol Police, according to Leahy’s summary and one from Sen. Richard ‘Benedict Arnold’ Shelby of Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee.”
So, democrat politicians (and The Gang of 18) want the police defunded for us, but additionally funded for them. Isn’t that special?
“And the legislation contains several major Medicaid provisions, particularly one that could disenroll up to 19 million people from the nation’s health insurance program for low-income Americans.”
Well, isn’t that wonderful as well?
“However, the bill, which runs more than 4,000 pages [more than three times the size of The Bible], left out several measures that some lawmakers had fought to include. An expansion of the child tax credit, as well as multiple other corporate and individual tax breaks, did not make it into the final bill.”
That’s odd.
“The spending bill, which would keep the government operating through September, the end of the fiscal year, is the product of lengthy negotiations between top congressional Democrats and Republicans.”
Ahh, yes…, we love those “top congressional democrats and republicans!” Especially our top “bend over” republican snakes in the grass!
“Here’s what’s in the bill [some of the lowlights]:”
“More aid for Ukraine: The spending bill would provide roughly $45 billion to help support Ukraine’s efforts to defend itself against Russia’s attack.”
We surely can’t leave Ukraine off of the gravy train.
“Also, it would provide $13 billion for economic support to the Ukrainian government. Other funds would address humanitarian and infrastructure needs…”
Our own economy and humanitarian, and infrastructure needs are all good here, so…
“Emergency disaster assistance: The bill would appropriate more than $38 billion in emergency funding to help Americans in the west and southeast affected by recent natural disasters, including tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding and wildfires.”
Like I mentioned earlier, Florida hurricane relief is not included here for some reason. I wonder why that would be?
“Overhaul of the electoral vote-counting law: A provision in the legislation aims at making it harder to overturn a certified presidential election, the first legislative response to the US Capitol insurrection and then-President Donald Trump’s campaign to stay in power despite his loss in 2020. The legislation would clarify the vice president’s role while overseeing the certification of the electoral result to be completely ceremonial.”
This is the “how dare you attempt to question our illegitimate election results” portion of the program.
“Funding for January 6 attack prosecutions: The bill would provide $2.6 billion for US Attorneys, which would include funding efforts “to further support prosecutions related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol and domestic terrorism cases,” according to a fact sheet from the House Appropriations Committee.”
“Domestic terrorists” as in concerned parents at school board meetings?
And would that “further support of prosecutions related to January 6” include Nancy Pelosi and all of her FBI co-conspirators?
“The package also gives $11.3 billion to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including for efforts to investigate extremist violence and domestic terrorism. The funding measures are part of nearly $39 billion that would be for the Justice Department.”
We can’t neglect the support for our politically weaponized versions of our own Gestapo and KGB, can we?
“Changes to Medicaid and other health care programs: The spending bill would phase out the requirement that prevented states from disenrolling Medicaid recipients…”
Hmmm, seems legit.
“Under the spending bill, states would be able to start evaluating Medicaid enrollees’ eligibility and terminating their coverage as of April 1.”
Those damn Medicaid enrollees, wanting to be all heathy and stuff!
“Up to 19 million people could lose their Medicaid benefits, according to estimates, though many would be eligible for other coverage.”
Exactly what “other coverage” would that be?
Maybe we’ll get the special kind of coverage that Congress enjoys instead! Ya, that must be it!
“Plus, the package would provide more money for the National Institutes of Health [NIH] and the Centers for Disease Control…”
Oh, goodie! More money for the political, fake science, “doctors” to promote liberal control policies, propaganda, and out and out lies.
“It would include nearly $53 billion to address higher inflation [by actually increasing inflation] and $2.7 billion, a 25% increase, to support critical services and housing assistance for veterans and their families.”
I would really like to know exactly how this money will “support critical services” and “housing assistance.”
Why do I think we would be way, way better served by just turning this money over directly to an organization like Tunnels to Towers or Wounded Warrior Project?
“The bill would also help families who have had their food stamp benefits stolen since October 1 through what’s known as ‘SNAP skimming. It would provide them with retroactive federal reimbursement of the funds, which criminals steal by attaching devices to point-of-sale machines or PIN pads to get card numbers and other information from electronic benefits transfer cards.”
Say what? Is this really that big of a thing? I’m sure it would be hilarious to see exactly how this would be processed and administered. Why do I think the criminal will find a way to double dip on the skimming and the reimbursement? Just a wild, but educated, guess.
“Help to pay utility bills: The bill would provide $5 billion for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Combined with the $1 billion contained in the earlier continuing resolution, this would be the largest regular appropriation for the program, according to the National Energy Assistance Directors Association. Home heating and cooling costs, and the applications for federal aid in paying the bills have soared this year.”
Here’s an idea! Why not just reverse some of the idiotic democrat anti-energy policy, and nip this in the bud, so people won’t need assistance to begin with? Of course, with that scenario, people would be less dependent on government, and we can’t have that!
“Additional funding for the US Capitol Police: The bill would provide an additional $132 million for the Capitol Police for a total of nearly $735 million. It would allow the department to hire up to 137 sworn officers and 123 support and civilian personnel, bringing the force to a projected level of 2,126 sworn officers and 567 civilians.”
As I mentioned earlier, democrat politicians (and The Gang of 18) want the police defunded for us, but additionally funded for them. They require 2,700 people to protect 635 representatives? That’s roughly four people for every representative. Boy, they must really be important! On our end of things, we’re lucky to have one police officer for every 300 of us.
“It would also give $2 million to provide off-campus security for lawmakers in response to evolving and growing threats.”
I’m not even sure what to say about this. If I did, it would be nothing good.
“More resources for children’s mental health and for substance abuse: The bill would provide more funds to increase access to mental health services for children and schools. It also would invest more money to address the opioid epidemic and substance use disorder.”
Again, not a bad thing. But while we are allowing tons of drugs to flow over our border every day, it seems like an attempt to additionally fund our missile defense system with fly swatters.
“Investments in homelessness prevention and affordable housing: The legislation would provide $3.6 billion for homeless assistance grants, a 13% increase. It would serve more than 1 million people experiencing homelessness.”
Oh, yeah! Because these current homelessness prevention programs are working so well!
“The package also would funnel nearly $6.4 billion to the Community Development Block Grant formula program and related local economic and community development projects that benefit low and moderate income areas and people, an increase of almost $1.6 billion.”
Another stupid and wasteful program that will just continue to line the pockets of people who are talking a good game, but actually doing nothing to help these low income areas.
For a good example of these wonderfully wasteful programs, please let me refer you to one of my prior blogs:
“More support for the environment: The package would provide an additional $576 million for the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], bringing its funding up to $10.1 billion.”
More increased funding for a government agency with way too much uncontrolled power as it is.
Let me just add that all of the alphabet of government agencies, with all of their unelected Nazi wannabes, are up to no good, and are all involved in only controlling us more. That would include, for starters, in no particular order, the IRS, NSA, NIH, CDC, DHS, DEA, FBI, CIA, EPA, DOE, FCC, FEC, NRC, and the DOJ. And like I said, this is a list just for starters.
In addition, we see funding for:
A Michelle Obama “trail” for $3.6 million,
An LGBTQ museum in New York City for $3 million,
$410 million to secure foreign borders, with nothing to secure our own borders,
$7.5 million to study the “domestic radicalization phenomenon,” whatever that means. Since they feel it is a “radicalization,” I can only assume it is a study to target and minimalize normal, everyday, patriotic citizens.
And, $200 million for something called the “Gender equity and Equality Action Fund.” Here, again, I’d like to see an actual accounting of where this money is going, and how it is actually being used.
And there is more disgusting wasteful spending we will hear about as people continue to dissect this monstrosity of a bill.
Oh, and I forgot to mention they threw in a 16.5% raise for themselves. How’s that for a cherry on top?!
Thank you “Gang of 18” for your irresponsible and unexplainable support of the democrats and their continued degradation of our great country. You have officially become heroes of “the swamp,” and newly minted members of “the dark side.”
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According to Newt Gingrich, former Congressman from Georgia, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995-1999, for Fox News, “Biden, Democrats make every decision based on how it impacts America and always chose what hurts the most.”
“When Sean Hannity asked me why President Joe Biden would favor buying oil and gas from Venezuela over producing oil and gas in Texas, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Louisiana or North Dakota, something clicked in my thinking.”
Something “clicked” for me as well, although for me it “clicked” a couple of years ago. So, welcome to the party Newt, although you’re quite late.
My prior thinking was that democrats were misguided, foolish, and/or stupid, but then I came to realize the democrats’ (at least the ruling class of democrats) anti-America actions were calculated and evil, while the majority of their followers were misguided, foolish, and/or stupid, although we all know that ignorance is no excuse in the end.
Newt continues, “I was reminded of the amazing speech United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick gave at the 1984 Republican Convention, when she described the ‘blame-America-first Democrats.’”
“I suddenly realized the common thread of Biden administration policies at home and abroad is to weaken America.”
Ya think, Newt?!
Is this why it seems the republicans are always a day late and a dollar short?
“Think about the administration’s range of choices and ask yourself: Which ones would strengthen America, and which ones would weaken it?”
“In Afghanistan, Biden could have followed the advice of [some of] the professional military and withdrawn in a calm and orderly manner. This would have led to no loss of life, no abandonment of equipment, and no sense of humiliating failure. It would have made America stronger.”
“Instead, the Biden administration overruled the military, abandoned billions in equipment, fled Afghanistan in chaos [and humiliation], sacrificed 13 young Americans [soldiers], and abandoned thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of our allies. He chose to weaken America.”
Biden and his administration were then allowed to lie and deny the whole thing, without being held accountable by the fake news media.
“The Biden team could side with the demonstrators in Iran and China who are trying to overthrow dictatorships. Instead, it has made a series of weak, border-line pathetic comments. A strong America would reach out to people striving to be free. A weak America [led by a bought and paid for Joe Biden] kowtows to Xi Jinping and the Chinese communist dictatorship and grovels to the ayatollah and the Iranian tyranny, no matter how much they work against us. Once again, weakening America and strengthening our enemies is the Biden [and the democrats’] model.”
“If the United States had sustained [maintained] [its] energy independence, we would be strengthening our European allies with liquid natural gas. They could ignore Russia’s economic blackmail. A strong America would do just that. Instead, the Biden administration is pleading with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and exonerating him from the killing of a journalist. All of Biden’s earlier tough language about Saudi Arabia being a ‘pariah state’ has dissolved. All that is left is Biden’s whimpering plea for more Saudi oil to make up for the American oil he has blocked. Again, America is weaker.”
Again, while Biden and his administration were then allowed to lie, deny, spread disinformation about the whole thing, without being held accountable by the fake news media.
“As I mentioned, Kirkpatrick was the first to clearly identify the decay of the Democrats away from strength and realism toward weakness and fantasies. Her 1984 speech captured the trajectory of madness and destruction onto which the Democrats had embarked.”
That’s close to 40 years ago already, and the democrats definitely are living in some sort of sick “fantasy” world.
“She noted that the Democrats at that time had clearly broken from the patriotic traditions of Democrat Presidents Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson and were on a new, more destructive path. She continued: ‘They said that saving Grenada from terror and totalitarianism was the wrong thing to do, they didn’t blame Cuba or the communists for threatening American students and murdering Grenadians, they blamed the United States instead.’”
“When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the ‘blame America first crowd’ didn’t blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States.”
“When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn’t blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.”
“When Marxist dictators shoot their way to power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don’t blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States policies…”
“In the last 38 years, ‘blame America first’ has metastasized into ‘weaken America first.’”
“The patriotic courage of Presidents Truman, Kennedy and Johnson has mutated into a steadily weaker and more pathetic foreign and national security policy. It began with President Jimmy Carter and grew steadily worse with Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Biden.”
Newt’s perspective here is more of an historic one, and one from a world view.
My perspective here is more one of current affairs and current democrat policies, such as:
The promotion of criminal behavior, and the allowance of crime against law-abiding individuals and businesses.
The promotion of and the allowance of illegal immigrants crossing into our country on our southern border.
The promotion of and the allowance of the Mexican drug cartels to carry out their drug trafficking and human trafficking operations.
The creation of record high inflation, and the disinformation and denial of this record inflation.
The systematic destruction of our country’s history.
The promotion of pedophilia as an acceptable life style, and the federal protection of those involved in this lifestyle, regarding Epstein’s client list for example.
The promotion of aborting babies at any time, even after birth!
The weaponization of the DOJ and the FBI against any citizen who dares to disagree with the democrats’ stated goals and narratives.
The attack on fossil fuel production in our country, even though fossil fuels still provide 90-95% of the energy our country requires.
The promotion of Climate Change as a world-ending, human created, problem, and the promotion of Green New Deal policies and laws that would supposedly have some type of positive effect on this supposed problem.
The promotion of pandemic policies, vaccines, and mandates, which had no basis in science, but rather were all politically driven, with no consideration of the well-being of the American people, or the people of the world for that matter.
The coordinated assault on our election systems and procedures.
The degradation of our education system, and the promotion of liberal narrative indoctrination.
Their attacks on our Constitution, particularly the 1st and 2nd amendments.
It would seem the democrats certainly have left no stone unturned in their attack on our great country!
I agree with Newt when he says, “Today, the most reliable predictor of Biden administration (or Democrat Party) policy is whether it will strengthen or weaken America. If it will strengthen America, they almost certainly will not do it. If it will weaken America, they almost certainly will.”
There can be no doubt that “Weaken America First” is the Democrats’ Goal.
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That clinical term seems quite demeaning, but by definition, there’s a good chance you are!
According to a 2020 Harvard study, “1 out of every 3 U.S. adults is obese.”
And this number has since increased to over 40% of adults being considered “obese,” and over 70% considered to be “overweight.”
Wow! That seems like we’re talking about a real general health problem.
But, first, let’s define what we’re talking about here.
Let’s start with the word “morbidly.”
The Oxford Languages Dictionary defines “morbidly” as, “Characterized by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.”
Hmmm…, does this seem like an appropriate adjective to attach to someone’s weight classification?
Who came up with this troubling label? Someone who was “morbidly skinny?”
Synonyms of “morbidly” are listed as, “Ghoulish, unhealthy, gruesome, grotesque, and horrible.”
Isn’t this taking the description of a weight classification a bit far?
You should be nodding your head.
According to WebMD.com:
“Obesity is determined by your body mass index (BMI). This score is calculated by finding your height and weight on the BMI chart. Morbid obesity is defined by a BMI of 40 or greater.”
So, the key to this whole thing is the BMI chart.
But, where did this BMI chart come from?
It must have been a result of a collection of verifiable and scientific studies, performed by certified medical professionals, right?
Actually, no. BMI was invented in the 1830s by a Belgian statistician, sociologist, astronomer and mathematician by the name of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet. It was known then as the Quetelet Index and was informed by Quetelet’s interest in finding what would be the definition of the “average man.”
Hmmm.
First off, so, women are just out of luck? Whoever extrapolated these very unscientific numbers for men into equally unscientific numbers for women the first place is anyone’s guess.
Anyway, let’s proceed.
Sooo, this concept was arrived at close to 200 years ago, and I noticed that healthcare, medicine, or nutrition were not listed as any of Quetelet’s areas of expertise.
But this antiquated and unscientific chart has been adopted and used by our modern healthcare system as “The Bible” for weight health anyway?
Interesting.
Stupid, but interesting.
Here is the (BMI) Body Mass Index chart.
When you use a BMI chart to determine how healthy your weight is, you’ll find a corresponding number to your height and weight:
If you have a BMI of less than 18.5, you are considered to be in the underweight range.
If you have a BMI of 18.5 to less than 25, you are considered to be in the healthy weight range.
If you have a BMI of 25.0 to less than 30, you are considered to be in the overweight range.
If you have a BMI of 30.0 or higher, you are considered to be in the obesity range.
Additionally, health experts divide obesity into three separate categories of severity:
Obesity class 1: BMI between 30 and less than 35
Obesity class 2: BMI between 35 and less than 40
Obesity class 3: BMI of 40 or higher
Class 3 obesity is also categorized as “severe” obesity, or as being “morbidly obese,” if you are 100 pounds heavier than your recommended weight. You may also be considered “morbidly obese” if you have a BMI of 35 or more and have obesity-related health conditions like high blood pressure or diabetes.
But, like I said earlier, “The key to this whole thing is the BMI chart, which is based on height and weight (At least from 200 years ago!).”
The average height for a male in the United States these days is 5 feet 9 inches, which, according to the BMI chart, means the average healthy male in the United States should weigh between 128-162 pounds.
I’m not a healthcare expert (but neither was the creator of the BMI chart), but doesn’t that weight range seem a bit light?
I, personally, am 6 feet tall. Which means I should weigh between 140-177 pounds.
Hmmm, really?
The last time I weighed 177 pounds was probably in my early high school days, and the last time I weighed 140 pounds was probably in 5th or 6th grade!
Even at the healthiest, and most fit, time of my life, when I served in the U.S. Marine Corps, based on the chart, I would have been considered “overweight.”
I currently weigh around 260 pounds, which is off the BMI chart for my height, so I am considered “morbidly obese.”
I realize I weigh more than I probably should at this point, but I don’t consider myself obese, and certainly not “morbidly obese.”
And I’m certainly not going to judge myself by the size of men from 200 years ago in Belgium, or by someone’s idea from that time period of what a “healthy” weight was!
And I’m admittedly confused and concerned as to why healthcare professionals would choose to judge me by that criteria.
Healthcare recommendations are made based on this BMI chart.
Medications are prescribed based on this BMI chart.
Some Healthcare Insurance coverage is based on this BMI chart.
And all of this ill-advised behavior is taking place based on an antiquated, unscientific, and out of date information, in addition to people feeling it is appropriate to call someone “morbidly obese.”
Why do healthcare “professionals” feel it is okay to disparage individuals who have an issue with their weight? What other group of people is it okay to insult and negatively label?
I’m not a big fan of people being offended by everything, but I feel referring to someone as “morbidly obese” is offensive.
I would respectfully like these healthcare system individuals to consider their weight classifications as outdated, discriminatory, derogatory, inconsiderate, and unthoughtful.
If you feel comfortable referring to me as “ghoulish, gruesome, grotesque, and horrible,” because I weigh a little more than I probably should, I’ve got a few adjectives of my own I’d like to throw back at you, like “unprofessional, irresponsible, and insensitive.”
Can we all agree, at this point, that this archaic BMI chart should be ditched, or at least updated?
Can we all agree that this centuries old chart, created by someone with no medical or health credentials, should be delegitimized and retired?
Can we all agree that it should never be okay to label someone as “ghoulish, gruesome, grotesque, and horrible,” unless their behavior justifies it?
We should all be able to agree that the healthcare system needs to drag itself out of the 19th century and into the 21st century.
Just sayin’.
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After all, in a free society, we are all allowed to have our own opinions, right?
We are allowed to question our own government, since they work for us, right?
Although we must admit, it is getting harder and harder to tell who our government is actually working for.
If I was an irresponsible mainstream propagandist journalist, I would take a page from their proclivity for using anonymous sources to back-up their tripe about President Trump…, but I’m not. They would claim that according to anonymous sources and anonymous whistleblowers who are close other anonymous sources who are close to movers and shakers at various government agencies and other high level political entities, as well as anonymous sources who are close other anonymous sources who are also close to various international power brokers who promote a one world order and despise the United States of America, this would seem to be the case.
But again, you be the judge.
Conceivably, once the attempt at removing President Trump failed, via the impeachment route, they were forced to go with Plan B…, or actually Plan C (for COVID).
You have to admit that the virus rearing its ugly head precisely when it did was quite the perfect storm for those opposed to President Trump.
Some of these anonymous sources would have indicated that the COVID-19 virus, which had been developed with US taxpayer dollars, in China, was deliberately released on the world in an attempt to derail President Trump’s economic successes, and his run for re-election.
China, of course, would be more than happy to participate in this operation, since it had the most to gain from the destruction of the US economy and the taking down of President Trump.
Other of these various anonymous sources would have revealed that political entities in our own country and the Chinese government were aware that this strategy would cost millions and millions of lives worldwide, but that this loss of life was acceptable collateral damage.
We also have to recognize here, that it is well known, that many global elites believe the global population needs to be reduced anyway, so, in their eyes this was a net positive effect.
Please recall that upon recognizing the COVID outbreak in China, the Chinese government shutdown internal commercial airline flights, while allowing international flights out of China to continue.
The evil of these “people” is almost unfathomable, but in the years that would follow, the pandemic years, and the last two Biden years, I think we all have a clearer picture of what these “people” are capable of lowering themselves to.
The anti-America crowd and the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), with its newly minted “Emperor” Xi, are more than happy to burn the whole world down, as long as they are the ones ruling over the ashes.
Once the virus was unleashed on the world, the rest of their actions were just political “damage control,” promoting the death totals to gain emergency government power, and scientific disinformation and misinformation.
Blue state governors participated by intentionally turning nursing homes into “death camps” by ordering COVID patients be inserted into these extremely vulnerable populations of our moms and dads, and our grandmas and grandpas.
Insidious.
These governors then continued to take their marching orders from the corrupt CDC, regarding masking, physical separation rules, vaccination mandates, school closures, selective business closures, and other freedom inhibiting mandates. The virus also gave them the emergency authority to undermine the 2020 presidential election, by skirting election laws in the name of “public safety,” allowing them to indiscriminately distribute millions and millions of generic ballots to misuse. Remember, that President Trump really only lost the election by about 75,000 “votes,” spread over six swing states. I’d refer to the documentary “2,000 Mules.”
Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson, for starters) were eventually let into the great charade and allowed to take their cut of hundreds of billions of dollars, for peddling their “snake oil” vaccinations. Again, paid for by the US taxpayer.
That’s a pretty sweet deal for the architects and the beneficiaries of this global disaster. These demonic entities reaped all of the benefits while the US taxpayers funded their own demise all the way around. It was a win-win, or a lose-lose, depending on your point of view.
We were lectured to about how this was “a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” all while Pfizer has since admitted they knew the vaccines and boosters did not stop the spread, nor did they really stop the virus either. Currently, about 60% of new COVID cases are people who have been vaccinated.
And is it any wonder that whenever a journalist, a congressperson, or a senator, has the nerve to question the origin of the virus, they are immediately shut down, ostracized for even raising the topic, and then roundly ignored.
The powers that be want no part of “going there.”
Regarding the pill meme above…, there ae some exceptions, but not many.
Someday the world may learn the whole truth. But not if “they” can help it.
Until then, this whole thing will be dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory…, although lately, many “conspiracy theories” of the last few years have been shown to be a bit more than theories.
Stay thirsty my friends.
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